Whats your cheapest combo? Casting/spinning.       Mine is a Shimano sedona with a berkely Lightning rod $80-

Spinning set up.

 

BPS Extreme @ $32.50 on Ebay paired with a Quantum Tour Tactical 6'10" rod also from Ebay @ $59.99.  

Who cares?

Who cares?

Good point....lol 

first bait casting setup, a black max on sale for $35 and a berkley lightning for like $40, so $75 combo, but the eyes on the rod are about to fall out but i still use the reel for pickerel fishing lol

My Snakehead setups. Johnny Morris JM10's purchased NIB from my bud for $50 each and a Berkley Lightning Rod Shock 7' MH purchased on sale at Walmart for $20 each. Brian.

Really?! $70-$80 is your guy's cheapest combo?! Mine is a Daiwa D-shock combo that I will forever cherish because it got me back into fishing. Cost me about $20 and has caught me a lot of fish over the last few years.

I dont have any really cheap equipment, ive learned to buy quality instead of replacing/upgrading low cost stuff every year.

I guess it would be my slip bobber walleye rod, okuma deadeye $70 and a shimano sedona $60.

My "cheapest" as in the combo i spent the least on is a 7ft Skeet Reese crankbait rod that I bought brand new off of my cousin for $20 and a $50 Black Max reel.  Add 10lb mono and a KVD 1.5 in sexy sunfish and it was probably my most productive setup last year.

One of my main jerkbait combos was $30 for the reel (H2O Mettle), $60 for the rod (H2O micro guide). I have some cheaper ones, but that's the cheapest one that's on the front lines. 

Who cares?

Amen !

Curado 200dhsv ... Duckett ghost ... 160 spent for it

Last year I bought new bass pro rods for fathers day. Already had casting reels so I think it only set me back $80 for both rods. Caught a ton of fish last year on those with flouro and senko's.

Spinning:  Pfleuger Trion reel on a BPS Graphite Series rod.  This it was about $80 in total.

Casting:  Lew's Tournament on a 1st generation Veritas rod.  I think it was about $200 in total.

Who cares?

Not I.

 

But if I were to guess, I'd say its those that can't afford to spend a whole lot on a combo --- they may want to have validation for their use of equipment that is far cheaper than most discussed on here.  'Equipment ***' isn't all bad, but nobody wants it to be consumed by it. 

Already been a thread.  My answer is the still the same.  An outfit I bought for my grandson, but he didn't want to try a baitcast reel.  It is now a dedicated spinnerbait combo for me.  A Berkley Lightning with Daiwa Procaster 100HN...$48.02 with tax.  In the other thread a guy found a combo at a either a flea market or pawn shop.  Sold one of the items, and made money on the deal.  That is how I would like to buy my outfits. 

7ft Rapala Magnum Spinning rod - $40 and an el cheapo South Bend Voltage Spinning reel - $15. This is now my back-up for my back-up

Cheapest? It was free. A Shakespeare #1920 Wondereel on a 5' 6" steel Shakespeare rod.

My Grandpa gave it to me when I was 10 years old (1962).

 

Tom

If we are going by what we paid instead of what it is worth then i have to change mine to my med crank rod. Won a free custom rod with a batson blank, 7'10" MMF. Have a lews laser mg on it that I paid $50 for. So $50.

Spinning: Berkley Lightning Rod Shock w/ Pflueger Trion. LR was $30 at walmart on clearance, reel was $30 NIB w/ free shipping off ebay.

 

Casting: Abu Garcia Vengenace w/Black Max 2. Combo was on clearance for $49.99 at DSG, plus I had  $10 off a $50 purchase coupon, and at the time there was a $20 mail in rebate from Pure Fishing....$19 for the combo...........I'll take that all day, every day.

 

Both combos have served me well, taken lots of abuse, and won me plenty of money against guys with "better" equipment.

Mines probably a old shimano citica and cabelas pro guide rod

If we are going by what we paid instead of what it is worth then i have to change mine to my med crank rod. Won a free custom rod with a batson blank, 7'10" MMF. Have a lews laser mg on it that I paid $50 for. So $50.

 

 

Spinning: Berkley Lightning Rod Shock w/ Pflueger Trion. LR was $30 at walmart on clearance, reel was $30 NIB w/ free shipping off ebay.

 

Casting: Abu Garcia Vengenace w/Black Max 2. Combo was on clearance for $49.99 at DSG, plus I had  $10 off a $50 purchase coupon, and at the time there was a $20 mail in rebate from Pure Fishing....$19 for the combo...........I'll take that all day, every day.

 

Both combos have served me well, taken lots of abuse, and won me plenty of money against guys with "better" equipment.

There you go good deals

 

Mine would be a 7'1" *** rod($30) and a Tatula reel($40) I got new for $70 total.

how the heck did you get such a good deal?????!!! i gotta get in on some of that....

You have to be at the right place at the right time. Like those of us that got the $42 Shimano Crucial rods at DSG

shimano sienne and Berkley lightning rod shock